Depending on band conditions and antenna efficiency {not antenna gain}, a RF
Gain value of 60 may be too high. With a 1/2 wave resonant antenna on 160M
and 75M and to some extent, I run the RF gain in the 30's. On 10M & 12M
more RF gain is required due to the fact the antenna captures less signal.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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>> I find the NR of the ORION II poor. To my ear the noise of the Orion II
>> in SSB is very aggressiv and the NR ist unusable while not doing
>> much to reduce the noise. I am setting AGC and RFGain. I must
>> reduce the RF-Gain to "60", while the bands are too noisy. This is
>> my subjective opinion.
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